First, if you, like me, suffer from nausea in first-person games, avoid this one entirely. The movement--which the player is not directly in control of beyond a single click as to which door/staircase/hallway to use--made me queasy almost immediately. It produces a strange, gliding sensation, and occasionally the camera takes a sharp, whiplash-inducing swing around corners.

As for the rest, I like mystery stories, adventure games, and hidden object games. This one, unfortunately, offers very little of any of those kinds of gameplay. The story barely exists, very few things in each room are interactive, and the game environment has nothing in common with HO.

I'd like to give this game another try, to be fairer in my assessment, but I don't think I can get past how ill it makes me.

I got this for my wife. She loves any games where you have to solve puzzles. This sounded like the game for her, but she really did not like it. This game is basically a dumbed down version of Clue. She thought it was boring, not challenging, and made her motion sick due to the first person view. She said the first person wouldn't have been an issue except that anytime the player moves from one room to the other the transitions are unneccesarily long and the turns are fast. In fact, my wife had only "found" about 1/2 the items/people, when she was so sick that she just guessed at the person/place/weapon to end the game. And she guessed it right! My wife said even though it was only a couple of bucks, it was a waste of time and money. I wouldn't get this if I were you.

I like a good murder mystery as the next person, but this game is very bad. The movement is horrible, the puzzles are just as bad, and the characters are too unrealistic to be in the setting. The only good thing about this game is the trading cards and the mysterious, omnious voices you hear throughout. Not worth the money, heck I don't even want to AFK it for the cards.

I can bet that even the devs didn't play this game a single time. It's poorly optimized, with horrible graphics, terrible controls and ... it has a price... The devs should pay the players to play this game.

But hey, at least I got some trading cards.

On the exit button it says: "Sadly, I want to leave this beautiful game" - are you f kiddin' me?

I enjoy the adventure types games but this one was a real pain.. The puzzles are too easy, dont have that much to interact with the enviroment along with the people, the blood stained was probably the hardest thing at trying to find!

Reminds me of CLUE, if there was no direction and you had no idea what you could and couldn't interact with.

The lockpick part is a complete joke as it seemed as if the placement was constantly changing as I kept going back to the same part that worked earlier and the controls were all over the place.

If the game gave you a little more insight on what you were supposed to be doing and an objective other than figure out who murdered who, I feel like this could be a decent game. I have no idea what I'm supposed to be looking for, and sometimes the items that I had found were by accident and were barely visible.

This is not a bad game if you like those kind of point-and-click adventures although, I find that little bit troublesome for one of the card games where it didn't show the rules of the game so I didn't know how to play.

Also the kind of cut scenes you've got no control over but if you want to click around and see what happens it could waste a few hours for you to play this game.

Cons:- first thing that catches your eye is an awful optimization. Game didn't want to make a fullscreen mode and for such a weak graphics it shows FPS like games with photorealistic graphics;- almost everyone said about bad camera that make you nausea. It's point-and-click adventure from the first person perspective and it's very uncomfortable;- sleaze interface;- puzzles are not interesting and aimed to pixel-hunting.

Gameplay: 4

Graphics: 3

Sound and Music: 4

Interface and Control: 3

Novelty: 4

Rating: 3.5

Verdict. I like the Cluedo-style idea but EnsenaSoft made such a weak realization of it. There's absolutely no soul in it. Game feels unfinished and made like for fast money.

Back in the glorious days of DOS, there was a game called Sleuth. You played a detective solving a Cluedo-style murder mystery. You had to find the murder weapon, which room of the mansion the murder happened in, and question suspects to determine whose alibi didn't hold up.

This is a 3D graphic, but far inferior, version of that game.

Moving around the mansion in this terrible version is frustrating, tedious, and nauseating. You often have to sit through unskipable animations of multiple corridors passing by. The pixel-hunting for weapons is offensive. The graphics are mediocre. The music is wildly inappropriate for the setting. The victim is real world author of Sherlock Holmes stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (32 years before his real-life death), but the suspects have bat-dung crazy names like Quantum Lynx.

In Sleuth, published as donationware back in 1983, the suspects move around the mansion, can refuse to talk to you, and the murderer will kill you if you're not fast enough. None of these features are present in Murder Mystery Adventure, published 33 whole years later.